7:01 PM,
Feb. 8, 2013

Mariano Rivera talks about the North Avenue Church in New Rochelle. File photo by Seth Harrison/The Journal News

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Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera's renovation of the once-dilapidated North Avenue Church will take a step forward with $50,000 raised for the project.

A private fundraiser held recently by the tax and business consultants UHY Advisors NY at Siro's restaurant in Manhattan reaped the donations for the project, which is being undertaken by the pitcher's Pentecostal congregation, Refugio de Esperanza.

"Anything that we've seen Mariano get involved with seems to have been a worthy cause," said Michael Mahoney, UHY Advisors NY president and chief executive. ...